Linkou Zhulinshan Guanyin Temple

In 1801, the 6th year of the Jiaqing reign, Sanyi migrants in the Linkou area formed the Longshan Temple Patrons' Association. In 1853, the 3rd year of the Xianfeng reign, Manka Longshan Temple gave the Linkou faithful one of the three Guanyin statues it had brought from Longshan Temple in Anhai, Quanzhou, during the Qianlong era. The real test came late in the Japanese colonial period with the Kominka assimilation campaign: the authorities banned Taiwanese folk religion and tried to burn its statues, and believers had no choice but to hide the Guanyin and worship in secret. Later, the Japanese government allowed a temple in Japanese style to be built, and it was completed at the present site in 1939 under the name Linkou Longshan Temple. Only in 1949 was it renamed Zhulinshan Guanyin Temple, taking one character each from Luzhu, Linkou, and Guishan. In 2012, after study trips to temples in many places, the rebuilding was completed, giving the temple the look you see today.